Assistant Accountant

About Us

MCE Group has been improving UK plant reliability since 1990. It provides 24-7 emergency services, operations improving diagnostic services, and comprehensive valve management services. It's ValvPerformance Testing and Valve Maintenance Database (VMD), provide its customers with improved uptime and superior asset management. Its customer base is diverse due to its broad expertise in various industry requirements of valve maintenance. MCE is a ValvTechnologies Authorized Repair Centre, a Fisher Control Valve Authorized Service Facility, and holds several long-term contracts with major power plant operators and process industry leaders throughout the UK

Accounts Assistant

Job Purpose:

Assist with overall coordination of the group s financial and administration processes and activities. To support the Finance Manager in applying day to day finance and administration of MCE Group. To ensure that total quality principles are applied and maintained in a team working environment with focus on process improvements that ensure client satisfaction.

Responsibilities:

Duties listed below are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related or a logical assignment to the role.

• Open new customer/supplier accounts
• Process Sales invoices and send to customers promptly
• Prepare and issue monthly statements
• Credit control to ensure payment receipts are in accordance with terms & conditions.
• Reporting of any potential bad debts to Finance & Admin Manager
• Check supplier invoices against purchase orders and delivery notes, distribute for authorisation.
• Reconcile supplier statements against accounting records
• Resolve customer/supplier queries
• Cost all Sales/purchase invoices to jobs
• Post labour costs to jobs from timesheets including NI and Holiday pay calculations
• Collect credit card receipts, reconcile to credit card statement then post to job costs.
• Bank Reconciliations
• Bank Reconciliations, postings and Cashflows
• Balance Sheet reconciliations
• VAT, PAYE/NI Submissions
• Monitor control accounts, Debtors & Creditors
• Inventory count and reconciliation
• Liaise with external stakeholders Auditors
• Post labour costs to jobs from timesheets including NI and Holiday pay calculations
• Collect credit card receipts, reconcile to credit card statement then post to job costs.
• Reconcile job costs with accounts records and update CFS s. Email to relevant departments
• PR Duties, including organising/arranging events/social gatherings etc, marketing or promotional items, arrange travel, accommodation for staff members etc.

Education and Experience

• Minimum of 5 years experience of accounts

Skills and Abilities

• Experience of Sage Accounts (not essential)
• Excellent IT skills including Microsoft Word / Excel / Databases
• Good interpersonal skills
• Ability to work with and engage staff at all levels in the organisation
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to be flexible / hands on
• Flexible approach to working hours and practices